Chapter 19. Mike Bayer
Mike Bayer is an American software developer and a senior software engineer at Red Hat, which sells open source software products. Previous positions include many New York-based internet companies like MLB.com. He also worked on content management software at Major League Baseball. Mike is the creator of a number of open source programming libraries for Python, such as SQLAlchemy, an SQL toolkit and object-relational mapper. He plays an active role in the Python community by promoting good database software practices. Mike is a regular speaker at PyCon US and smaller conferences in Europe.
Discussion themes: SQLAlchemy, AI, v2.7/v3.x.
Catch up with Mike Bayer here: @zzzeek
Mike Driscoll: What made you become a programmer?
Mike Bayer: I've had an interest in computers since 1980, when I was first exposed to early personal computers. I tried to learn game programming in assembly language for early 8-bit computers, without much success. In high school...